Couples and Relationship Counseling

As a therapist, my number one goal is to help couples find healthy ways to deal with the problems they will inevitably face throughout their lives.  How couples deal with conflict is considered by many to be the key factor in determining the quality and security of the relationship!

What to expect:

I will teach you healthier ways to communicating including productive conflict resolution.  Once these skills are developed, partners will learn how to maintain appropriate boundaries while respecting each other’s differences. 

After an initial assessment of the issues from each partner’s perspective, I will help you identify the unhealthy patterns you have developed over the years—most often patterns that you learned (like most of us!) by observing your own parents & family members.  Then we will explore the underlying reasons or  “why” you have become angry/distant/exhausted/lonely.

Most of us were never taught the necessary skills to create a healthy relationship.  The extent of conflict a couple may experience is typically dependent upon several factors: the amount of “baggage” (unresolved issues or painful past experiences) we bring to the relationship; how we perceive or process situations; our level of self-worth; our ability to communicate and express thoughts and feelings; and the ways we choose to respond.

Gaining awareness of these factors and learning healthy ways of communicating are the basis of building a more loving and trusting relationship.